Why I can't remove Planetary Equipment?
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These slots didn't exist pre 2.0 and have been added so you don't need to make a compromise when you want to land on planets. For Horizons owners they are a core module but marked as optional because you can play the game in 1.x version without them.
And though this is just a suspicion of mine, the fact that is has grades like other equipment, you might be able to change it whenever we get landing on planets that do offer atmoshperes. At least would make sense in my eyes that you need to prepare to land somewhere that tries to crush you with 120 atmo of pressure 
On a vaguely related note, I'm a little confused why the Vulture has got an 8-pip Planetary Landing suite slot... what are they planning on filling the other 7 with?
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Regardless of any reasoning behind it, it's not an optional module. It should be in the Core category, not optional.
The tears of the Vulture Pilots' victims.
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The Vulture has still grade 8? Interesting. I would have to look up the details, but out of memory it's something like this: it first was implemented with a higher grade for "reasons", but there never was the need for anything but grade 1. The module is implemented as grade 1, after all the only thing it actually is good for is to tell the game that the player can land of planets, so it's an internal "has horizon" flag.
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The "interesting" is because from what i remember, it was said that
the developers planed to change it and i -thought- it was changed in the beta. I didn't crosscheck in game yet, so either the change didn't make it to life (not a big deal, it makes no actual difference) or the Vulture somehow slipped through.
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Kietrax
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Sure it is optional - you can remove it if you want, you just won't be able to go down to landable planets any more even in the Horizons version of the client.
Just don't remove it to see if it improves jump range (e.g. in a Vulture) then try going to visit an engineer ... what was that, no one would be so stupid? Look - over there, a shiny thing! (Exits stage left ...)
Maybe they figured that the Vulture is SO unaerodynamic, it would need a class-8 avionics package to land on atmospheric planets when they arrive in SoonTM Edition...
The problem is that you can't! And that's my point for this thread. I personally would be happy to have removal option as exchange for planet landing.
And speaking about module size. The docking computer has it's own slot, but the planetary approach doesn't (but for me you have to track much more parameters during the planetary landing)
If you know what you're doing, you can, and it will, but you're not supposed to because government reasons.
Kind of like you can drive a straight pipe through a catalytic converter, improve your mileage, pollute like mad, but you're not supposed to.
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And I'm going to imagine/hope that when we finally can land on planets with atmospheres that the additional equipment we'll need (heat shielding, breaking flaps, and all that jazz) are included in this suite automatically.
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Yeah... It should have been placed in the CORE section, or better yet... Not even displayed as a "thing" considering I can't see anyone who purchased Horizons not wanting to be able to land on planets, which was the primary feature addition of 2.0 in the first place.